In Genshin Impact, you shouldn’t take Elemental Resonance for granted because some of them can really change the game.
When building a team in Genshin Impact, it’s important to think about the elemental resonance. The different effects give each Element its own unique way to play. For example, Hydro tends to focus on HP, Geo plays with shields, and Cryo gives the Permafreeze team a huge boost.
In Genshin Impact, it’s not easy to rank Elemental Resonance because five of the eight are good. Protective Canopy, Electro, and Anemo Resonance are easily three of the worst, but Pyro, Hydro, Dendro, Cryo, and Geo are all great. So, even though the five are ranked, it’s important to remember that their power is close, and the players’ teams are more important when it comes to bringing out the real power of the Resonance.
Unique Resonance – Protective Canopy
- Effect: All elemental resistances go up by 15%, and physical resistances go up by 15%.
In Genshin Impact, the Protective Canopy Resonance can only be used if each character in the party has a different Element. When Protective Canopy is turned on, players get more protection from all enemy damage. Even though it might seem helpful for all characters to have a defensive stat, it doesn’t really help much in end-game material. For example, when players go into the Spiral Abyss, either a healer or a shielder will always be there to help their team. So, it’s better to have a buff that helps you attack from the Resonance.
Electro Resonance – High Voltage
- Effect: Takes 40% less time to be affected by Hydro. When you use Superconduct, Overload, Electro-Charged, Quicken, Aggravate, or Hyperbloom, there is a 100% chance that you will create an Electro Elemental Particle (CD: 5s).
In Genshin Impact, Electro users usually depend a lot on their Elemental Bursts, act as batteries, or do both. It’s almost never the case that an Electro unit doesn’t have either of these tools. So, it shouldn’t be a surprise that Electro Resonance makes energy when electro-related events happen. The Energy Particles that are made can be amazing, but they can’t be used in battle because they have a five-second cooldown.
Anemo Resonance – Impetuous Winds
- Effect: “Impulsive Winds” cuts stamina use by 15%. Move SPD is increased by 10%. Skill CD is cut by 5%.
When two Anemo users are in the same party, Anemo Resonance activates three buffs. Even though reducing cooldown is one of the less common benefits of Genshin Impact, 5% of it doesn’t help anyone. At best, it might cut characters’ cooldowns by one second, which isn’t very useful in battle.
Anemo Resonance’s only useful buffs are that it lowers the party’s Stamina Consumption and increases their Movement SPD.These two buffs can make it much easier for players to move around the huge world map.
Cryo Resonance – Shattering Ice
- Effect: The Electro effect lasts 40% less long. 15% more damage is done to enemies that are Frozen or affected by Cryo.
The Cryo Resonance is an attacking buff that helps Cryo teams a lot, especially those that use the Blizzard Strayer artefact set. With a chance to increase CRIT Rate by up to 55%, players can work on increasing the CRIT DMG of their Cryo characters. Even though a 15% CRIT Rate is a powerful buff, it only works against enemies that are not Cryo or Frozen affected. This makes it rank lower than other Elemental Resonances.
Hydro Resonance – Soothing Water
- Effect: Pyro affects you for 40% less time when you use it. It adds 25% to your max HP.
After the Hydro Resonance was changed so that it increased the HP of the whole team by 25%, it became a very useful buff for players to use in their teams. Not only that, but the HP buff helps many characters whose value goes up as their HP goes up, which makes it even more valuable. For example, a unit like Hu Tao can work together with two Hydro users like Xingqiu and Yelan to get 25% more HP and more Hydro uses on the field.
Dendro Resonance – Sprawling Greenery
- Effect: Sprawling Greenery gives you 50 more elemental mastery. When Burning, Quicken, or Bloom is triggered, all close party members get 30 Elemental Mastery for 6 seconds. After triggering Aggravate, Spread, Hyperbloom, or Burgeon, all close party members gain 20 Elemental Mastery for 6s. The times for each of the above affects will be added up separately.
Teams that count on Dendro reactions in Genshin Impact get a big boost from the Dendro Resonance. When the Resonance is turned on, it gives the team 50 Elemental Mastery right away. This number can go up by another 50 when Dendro reactions happen in Slope Game. This buff that gives up to 100 Elemental Mastery is very helpful, since most Dendro users in Genshin Impact focus on Elemental Mastery.
Pyro Resonance – Fervent Flames
- Effect: The Cryo effect lasts 40% less long. It adds 25% to ATK.
One reason why characters like Xiangling and Bennett are important as Sub-DPS and Supports is because of the Pyro Resonance. If you take any Pyro DPS in Genshin Impact and add Bennett to their team, you’ll have a team with a lot of DMG potential. Since most units in Genshin Impact scale with ATK, having the Pyro Resonance increase the team’s ATK by 25% can take their DMG to the next level.
This effect is much easier to use than Geo Resonance, but it doesn’t do as much damage compared to the damage bonus that Geo Resonance gives to everyone.
Geo Resonance – Enduring Rock
- Effect: Enduring Rock has an effect that makes shields 15% stronger. Also, people who are protected by a shield will have these special traits: Damage done has gone up by 15%, and if you do damage to an enemy, their Geo RES will go down by 20% for 15s.
Genshin Impact teams can use the Geo Resonance in a lot of different ways. Even though Geo users can get the most out of Geo Resonance, other characters can still gain from it because of the DMG bonus. Players can pair two units that work well together, like Alhaitham and Raiden Shogun, and then add two Geo users who can act as Sub-DPS or Support. The team’s strikes will do 15% more damage. This will be easy for them to get.
Even though Geo Resonance needs a shielder for the DMG bonus to work, most players wouldn’t have a problem with this since Zhongli is around. Albedo is the best sub-DPS choice for the second Geo. If he’s not available, players can only use Ningguang as a secondary damage dealer or Yun Jin as a Normal Attack cushion.
Genshin Impact can now be played on PS4, PS5, Mobile, and PC. A version for the Switch is in the works.
